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From: gmadison@pnet02.cts.com (George Madison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Radio Shack personnel
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Date: 2 Jul 89 19:40:15 GMT
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wilso_d@cs.odu.edu (DeWitte Wilson) writes:
>Actually, I'm wondering even why they still sell the Model IV's.  I

I believe it has something to do with some contracts Tandy has with some
school districts about computers.  I agree the price is WAY out of line.

I don't know if you'd be interested in this, but several people on GEnie are
talking about the possibility of designing a new, Model-4 compatible
motherboard around the Z-280 processor.  The idea is that you'd drop this
board into an inexpensive PeeCee case, add a similarly inexpensive PeeCee
power supply and monochrome monitor, and VOILA!  They're thinking about such
things as an enhanced floppy controller that would deal with the new breed of
1.44MB floppies, built in hi-res graphics, lots of RAM on board, SCSI support,
and so on.  If they do what a manufacturer of a new Z-280 based CP/M machine
are doing and include an IBM-PC buss, we could use "their" HD controllers,
etc. directly.  (Remember, the Z-280 has a 16MB address space!)



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